FORTUNE IN SIGHT
£20,000,000 WAITING, BUT PAPERS LOST PANIC AMONG CLAIMANTS Reed. 9.5 a.m. CAPETOWN, Sunday. A Cape merchant shipowner named Jan Bantjes placed a fortune ou trust in Holland 140 years ago, and stipulated it should remain untouched for 100 years. There are now mort than 400 descendants, but the essential papers for establishing proof are missing. Meanwhile the fortune is estimated at £20,000,000. One descendant, Mrs. Wright, buried the papers during the Boer War under the floor of a house at Johannesburg and during the Great War she died. A search supervised by the police has unearthed an amazing hoard of hooks and a wallet which is believed to contain the missing papers.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 975, 19 May 1930, Page 9
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115FORTUNE IN SIGHT Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 975, 19 May 1930, Page 9
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